avoiding escalation seems like a sensible thing at this point as it’s clear neither side can easily win.
Pulling out was the correct decision which both of these sides should not benefit from increased escalation rather than the continuation of war which should not have escalated to invasion in the first place.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-state-of-the-war
>Ukraine did want to press forward last year, before the fortifications were built. It lacked the necessary weapons, and Elon Musk chose to cut Ukraine off from communications. That move likely extended the war. Because Musk’s decision was based on his internalization of Russian propaganda about nuclear war, and was accompanied by his repetition of that propaganda, he made a nuclear war more likely. If powerful men convey the message that just talking about nuclear war is enough to win conventional wars, then we will have more countries with nuclear weapons and more conventional wars that can escalate into nuclear ones. Ukraine has been resistant to this line of Russian fearmongering, fortunately for us all.
> The Ukrainians are defending the legal order established after the Second World War.
Because this is a fever dream. One has to imagine an entirely different trajectory of post 1990s history for this to be true.
Im not sure how giving a country being invaded the weapons it need to defend itself is "escalation".